Eleven writ petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against the government’s move to dissolve the parliament. Eleven writ petitions filed in the court on December 21.
The hearing on the registered writ has been fixed for December 23 and although the court had received 13 applications, two of them were not registered, said Supreme Court spokesperson Bhadrakali Pokharel.
He also said that most of the writ petitions have demanded the dissolution of the parliament saying it is unconstitutional.
The writ petition has been filed by Santosh Bhandari, Kanchan Krishna Neupane, Sulabh Kharel, Lokendra Bahadur Oli and Keshar Jung KC, Gyanendra Aran, Shalikram Sapkota, Kamal Bahadur Khatri, Maniram Upadhyay, Dr Dinesh Tripathi, Amita Gautam Poudel and Krishna Prasad Shrestha.
The Supreme Court has stated that Santosh Bhandari’s trial will be held in the constitutional bench and others will be heard in the others in the general bench.
Stating that the parliament can be dissolved only if the government is not formed through the alternative of Article 76 (7), Bhandari said that the government has taken steps to take the nation into a deep crisis.
Talking to INSEC Online, senior advocate Dr Dinesh Tripathi said that the writ petition was filed for the restoration of the parliament as the move to dissolve the parliament was wrong.
In most of the writ petitions, the Prime Minister and the President have dissolved the Parliament on the basis of psychic inclinations and the President and the Prime Minister have exercised their non-existent powers.
The writ petition states that both the recommendation of the Council of Ministers and the action issued by the President are unconstitutional.
The main duty to abide by and protect the constitution has been mentioned in the writ petition. The writ petition states that the recommendation of the Council of Ministers to dissolve the parliament and the work to be issued by the President is unconstitutional.